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Snooki Paid More Than Toni Morrison to Appear at Rutgers

April 1, 2011

Not a joke: New York Times bestselling author Snooki will be paid $32,000 by the Rutgers University Programming Association for appearing at two “student-produced comedy Q&A sessions” yesterday. This has generated great controversy, as that’s $2,000 more than the amount Toni Morrison, who, you know, won a Pulitzer, will be paid to deliver the school’s commencement address in May. Shocking!

And yet, is it? After all, Snooki gets $30,000 an episode to be on the Jersey Shore, a show on which Toni Morrison has never even been asked to appear! We choose our celebrities, you know — they don’t choose us. All we can do is live to regret it.